Manufacture of cigars.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNHARD WERTHEIMEB, OF KARLSRUHE, GERMANY.

MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,148, dated March 31, 1903.

Application filed October 30, 1900. Serial No- 34.907. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNHARD WERTHEI- MER, a subject of the-Emperorof Germany, and a resident of Kaiserstrasse 128, Karlsruhe, in the GrandDuchyof Baden, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved wrapping-apron for cigar-making machines; and the object of the invention is to. provide an improved form of cloth which will readily accommodate itself to the configuration of the cigar-bunch.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 1 on line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of a modification, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of Fig. 3 on line 4 4.

In the figures it will be seen that the cloth (indicated at O) is divided into strips 0 O and C for a certain distance from the front end, the remaining portion toward the rear extremity 0 being undivided. To enable the middle strip of the cloth to properly accommodate itself to the bellied part of the cigar when the bunch ,is inclosed in the loop of the cloth, a piece of the undivided part is cut out and replaced by an inserted sheet of elastic material I, such as india-rubber, which is extensible to a limited extent. This inserted sheet will thus stretch and allow the strips 0 C and G to accommodate themselves to the shape of the cigar, the india-rubber permitting only of so much stretch as is necessary for that purpose. The side portions 0' c of the apron are preferably left intact, as shown. 7

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown how the inserted piece I may be applied without cutting out a part of the apron at this Point. In this event a fullness O is formed in the apron and the elastic piece secured to the apron on each side thereof, the fullness thus allowing the elastic material to stretch.

Now what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. A wrapping-apron for cigar-making machines comprising a cloth of unstretchable material divided into strips at its front part BERNHARD WERTHEIMER.

Witnesses:

OSKAR STUNDHAVDT, J EAN GRUND. 

